"On the Amsterdam-München CityNightLine service last weekend Netherlands Police boarded the train at Venlo and shone a flashlight in everyone’s faces at the border."

And since I had similar experiences in the night train from Paris to Barcelona and in a normal train from the Netherlands to Germany, I also ask myself whether the member states are trying to establishing new borders within the Union, and in particular within the Schengen area?

If they are doing this, I'd expect the EU institutions to intervene - especially since border controls re-establish the impression that borders are not disappearing, and this would definitely go against the goals and ideals of the Union.

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and I can add the Belgian-French borders on the highways were you have to go through some sort of a snake at 10,km/hr and uniformed man (what are they?) look at you. Quite different from Belgian-Dutch borders, just a plate to tell you you are in another countrt!